An Oz Reaction To Sarah’s Story (cont.)

Sarah Palin won the Alaska gubernatorial election in 2006 on a ticket of promised transparency in government, ousting the seated governor whom no one liked and most suspected of corruption. Sarah had done business with the big boys in oil and had put them in their places, promising to do more of the same as governor.

Just after a year in office, Sarah, aged 42 or 43, discovered she was pregnant with her fifth child. She had a son serving in Iraq, two teenage daughters and a daughter in grade school. At the time, her husband was working on the North Slope – a large oil field owned by BP I think. The site was not one the workers could commute to and from so they worked in blocks of weeks, and during this particular ‘block’, Todd was not at home. Anyway, Sarah tells how because Todd was gone she had to handle all the initial decisions and emotions by herself, and she hadn’t wanted to tell anyone else until after she’d spoken with her husband. So nobody was told the good news.

For reasons which escape me at the moment, she underwent amniocentesis. Again Todd was not available, and again she had to wait for him to come home before telling him. She said she hadn’t wanted any criticism from the press or the legislators on being pregnant at her age so kept the whole pregnancy quiet. When Todd finally did come home, she told him the amnio results concluded the bub had Downs Syndrome. They decided together to not say anything until it was necessary. It was their little secret and nobody else’s business.

She was able to cover her pregnancy bump with loose clothing and cleverly-draped scarves enough that not even the people with whom she worked closely everyday suspected. She didn’t gain any excessive weight (she runs a lot) and was in general good health. A month before the bub was due, Sarah had two work-related trips planned. One toWashington D.C., the other to Texas to give a speech for something or other – I forget. Any way, the trips were about a week apart, the second one falling in her 36th week, and her Ob-Gyn gave her the okay to make the trips. Both are like going from Alice Springs to Sydney. It’s a few hours of driving to get from home to the airport, (more than two hours in good weather), then a long flight across the country, (12-15 hours), then taxi rides to get to hotels.

So – long story short – on the second trip, in Texas, her water broke. Just leaking, not huge puddles, but any leak is considered a break so – her water broke. She calls her doctor in Alaska. She wants badly for her son to be born on Alaska soil, but she also wants badly to deliver her 30 minute speech to the board of – something (why can’t I remember this part? I must be getting old) in Texas. Remember, she doesn’t want to catch flack for being a woman and the governor and having a baby all at the same time, and she claims the press was not normally kind to her.

So the doctor asks her a few questions and then tells her it should be ok to give the speech and then come home as planned.

My friend leans forward and belly laughs. Belly laughs! I had to wait for her to stop!

“What quack doctor would tell a woman in her 36th week to get on a plane and fly anywhere much less a 10 hour”

“12 hour”

“…a 12 hour trip, a woman past 35 and they already know the bub has Downs? That’s mad! Were there no hospitals in Texas?”

“Practically across the street from her hotel.”

“And her husband didn’t throw her in a hotel laundry cart and push her there himself? Or call an ambo? Geez my husband would have just taken over and my feet wouldn’t have hit the ground between the time I told him my water broke and they opened the doors to the maternity ward.”

“Well, Sarah and Todd agreed it would be best for them to go home.”

“They at least took an earlier flight?”

“Well, no, she gave her speech and then…”

More laughter. No kidding, she was holding her stomach she was laughing so hard. Spouse came out from under his headphones to see what the noise was about. We stood side by side in the doorway watching her laugh. “I’m only up to the water breaking at the hotel” I told him. He chuckled something about silly Americans, and went back to WoW. I refilled the plate of bikkies. Finally, she settled down.

“You’ve made all this up just to make me feel better haven’t you!”

“Nup.” I said, whilst a big grin grew across my face. “Want to hear about the flight home?”

…to be continued

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6 Responses to “An Oz Reaction To Sarah’s Story (cont.)”

If Sarah, or her husband, or her doctor REALLY thought there was a chance of the baby coming a month early, she would have gone straight to the nearest hospital, and as a matter of fact Parkland Hospital – very modern and up to date – was a few minutes away.

The super crazy part is her long plane trip. My lord – a PLANE – what a horrible place to even THINK of the chance of going into labor. I would be better to give birth in a cornfield. At least you would be on planet earth, and have a little privacy.

Now why doesn’t everyone upon hearing the ‘Wild Ride’ story have a belly-aching, tear-streaming laugh! Because it IS the most unbelievable story. BTW have you heard that Andrew Sullivan related the entire story on the Joy Behar show? And will the MSM continue to give SP a pass?

Sarah Palin would have us believe that she knew the baby had DS; knew she had had 2 miscarriages; had already had 4 children and was 44 years old; knew the fetus had a heart defect; and, when she woke up with amniotic fluid leaking and contractions that were different from the B-H contractions that she had been having for months, she prayed to God that this baby would be all right. That apparently absolved her of the need to take any precautions such as going to a nearby hospital (with NICU). Gave the speech while she now claims she was having contractions, although her earlier story was that the contractions had did down. Got on two flights without the attendants being aware of the stage of her pregnancy. Flew through Seattle (with NICU) to Anchorage but bypassed hospital (with NICU) where her doctor had privileges. Drove 45 minutes to hospital without NICU and where they do not even regularly deliver twins. Says baby was induced and born the next morning. I mean, does any woman who has given birth believe this story? It is a 100% fabrication. In fact, Sarah Palin was not pregnant with Trig, as the photos of her from March and April 2008 show. The birth story is a myth invented to coverup her hoax.